Deduplication is arguably the biggest advancement in backup technology in the last two decades. It is single-handedly responsible for enabling the shift from tape to disk for the bulk of backup data, ...

Battling armies of cloned files that bog down enterprise storage operations, new data-deduplication techniques rid systems of extraneous versions of the same information – a powerful promise that is ...

In part one of this series, I covered the basic concepts of data duplication. Before getting to the next installment, I wanted to take a second and apologize to the readers for the long delay between ...